Jean Kilbourne - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

She has twice received the Lecturer of the Year award from the National Association for Campus Activities and was once named one of the three most popular speakers on campuses by The New York Times Magazine. She was profiled in Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975 and was one of twenty-one journalists, media activists, and educators included in Reclaim the Media’s “Media Heroes” pack of trading cards. She received a most unusual tribute in 2004 when an all-female rock band in Canada named itself Kilbourne in her honor. While awarding Kilbourne the WIN (Women’s Image Now) Award, the representative from the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) said, “No one in the world has done more to improve the image of women in the media than Jean Kilbourne.” Mary Pipher, the author of Reviving Ophelia, has called Kilbourne “our best, most compassionate teacher.”

• Academy for Eating Disorders, Special Recognition Award, 2000
• ACME (Action Coalition for Media Education) Media Activist National Award, 2006
• AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), WIN (Women’s Image Now) Award, 1995
• Association for Women in Psychology, Distinguished Publication Award, 2000 (For Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel)
• Boston University School of Education, Ida M. Johnston Award, 2009
• Educational Foundation of America (Grant for a study of gender stereotypes in television commercials), 1980
• Entertainment Industries Council, Special Commendation, 1990
• Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975 (Profiled in the book)
• Germaine Lawrence, Inc., Woman of Excellence award, 2005 Kansas City, Kansas (Given keys to the city by Mayor Kay Barnes), 2004
• MEDA (Multiservice Eating Disorders Association), Annual Award, 2007
• Miss Hall’s School, Woman of Distinction Award, 2007
• Myra Sadker Equity Award, 2005
• National Association for Campus Activities, Lecturer of the Year Award (1988 and 1989)
• National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Marty Mann Founder’s Award, 1998
• National Organization for Women, Boston chapter, Woman of the Year, 1982
• Non-Smokers' Rights Association, Canada, Award of Merit, 1993
• PCAR (Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape)/NSVRC (National Sexual Violence Resource Center), Lifetime Television’s Times Square Project award, 2003
• Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, Hilda Crosby Standish Leadership Award, 2005
• Reclaim the Media (Included as one of twenty-one journalists, media activists, and educators in their “Media Heroes” deck of trading cards), 2008
• Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco (STAT), Annual Award
• Westfield State College, Honorary Doctorate, 2004
• Womanspace, Barbara Boggs Sigmund Award, 2008
• Women’s Action Alliance, Leadership in Action Award, 1995